The Door

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is a French and Romance philologist, and a PhD student at the Institute of Linguistics of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She studies the language of literary characters.

Was it the working of the Virgin Mary that caused the door behind the side altar to appear before the eyes of believers? That is unknown. What’s certain, nevertheless, is that whenever somebody walked through that door, their life completely changed.

It’ll be about ten years since Hela Majchrzak discovered the door behind the side altar, and that’s how it all started. It happened to be her turn on Thursday, so off she went to clean the church. Along the way, she picked some flowers in the meadow to reward the Virgin Mary for having to stand there out of sight like that, even though in a new dress, freshly gold-plated, done in the spring per the pastor’s request. A special committee looked

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Magda Kiełbowicz:

is a French and Romance philologist, and a PhD student at the Institute of Linguistics of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She studies the language of literary characters.

Translation: Mark Ordon

Publish date: 16.05.2019

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Jan Pelczar:

A journalist from Radio RAM. Author of the book 'Lecę. Piloci mi to powiedzieli' ('I'm Flying. Pilots Told Me That'). A graduate of the Polish School of Reportage. Associated with 'Przekrój' magazine since forever. In childhood, he flipped through all the editions at his grandparents'. In adulthood, he became addicted to the crossword puzzles of the Kaliber 45 collective and the drawings of Raczkowski.

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